Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-01-01
PECULIAR PHRASES.
THE KIND OF EXPRESSIONS USED
 sy JOUR SOCIETY DARLINeS.

Word. Applied in a Way Which Would
 Astonish the Dictionary Makers-E1-
 elamations of Dizzy Dudes-Pet Slang
 Phrases of Fair MAidens.
 -7Tbonls awfully,H says the society maiden os Co.ham when some favored youth sends her so bouquet for the german, and she ,,a.,s hin, before the dance with the flowers in her pretty hand and bewitehing smile She doesn't stop to think that thanks Is sIongv and that sawfulr means terrible or fearfnI Neither does the youth, although ne n,av think the florists bill really awful
 Any one listening with a critical ear to the conversation as a fashionable gathering VIII bear many words used in a way not spoken off bv any of the great dictionary makers, and the foreigner who comes here for a lew months and is admitted into the charmed circle is often bewildered by the strangeness Of the language.
 @Isn't Miss SO-and So just awfully grace fuly7 remarked pretty girl at Delmonlco hall last winter to an Austrian count, wl1n whom she was promenading. He was SO be- wildered that he stood still for few mo- ments. and then he stole away to the SmCk- ing room. took out his little pocket dictlon- ary and read. Awful. that which strikes with reverential fear and after learning this well, went back to the ball room and told another young lady that he thought Miss So-and-So was -rcverentially, strikingiy graceful, which the young lady thought was an exquisite compliment, put in such neal way, you know.
 LAUDED INTO CONVERSATION.
 ..br EFlNggH lar,le,i into all conversation at an interval of every two or three wor'ls needs the courage of n score of Stunewall Jacksons Co crush 1t with replies of Il beg your pardon but l don't know for half the time the subject spoken to does not know, and IT ne does, what is the Use of pounding the fact into nm at every breathing placei A reply To thlS ue- lirhtfui mode of address has just been iIn- ported from England, and every you kno" is greeted vith just fancy generally pro nounced ~fawncy.' lf these two phiasss were reversed there might be some reason for their being. for the story teller should be told he knew and the recipient asked to -lust fancy the situation of the story.
 A favorite mole of address used by young ladies to the young men ot their acquaint- ance is My dear child,' spoken m rather patronlZlus tone ol Noicc "AeN f-N'J drawl The young man seldom objects 10 this. but returns the compliment with an em- pha,ized -Now, really, when the young lady is lecturing him about the path he should follow
 But the @Too sweet for anythIngs applied to men, caramels, flowers, dresses, dogs, babies and a dozen other objects, the TX quisitely ravishing- describing Delmonico lunch. a prima dOnnas voice, or a new bon net from ROdrigue's, and the similar absurd yet bewitching slang used by the girls m so- ciety Is far Outdone by the young men about town Tbese young men have little else to do except go Co the club and invent new slang words The classic expression By love- is still used. but only as an entree or side dish, as it were Dreadful bOre,' An tiquely antique, and such phrases are per mitted, but the new expressions are most in vogue